With the increase in the frequency of the seismic activity in the territory of Korean Peninsula, the demand for seismic performance evaluation of existing buildings has appeared as well. In this research, a public building built in 1970s is evaluated by the Korea Infrastructure Safety Corporation guideline. As a result, this existing public building is evaluated to satisfy the life safety (LS) and the collapse prevention(CP) performance level that the KBC2009 demands for.

For the seismic performance assessment of a building, a lot of time and manpower are needed. In this paper, alternative procedure based on modeling transformation for the effective seismic performance assessment of the buildings is suggested. The suggested procedure is applied for the seismic performance assessment of an apartment building consisted of the ordinary reinforced concrete shear walls as the example model and its effectiveness is reviewed

Currently the seismic performance evaluation for existing buildings are being made simply through the review of the analytical technique corresponding to design specifications on beam, column, shear wall, joint and so on. Also the seismic performance is evaluated to 4 steps as immediate occupancy level(IO), life safety level(LS), collapse prevention level(CP), collapse occurrence level(CO). However, in case of a structure being used for a number of years after construction, which may have partial damages and durability degradations may show significant differences between the analysis results and the actual behavior during an earthquake. Therefore, a improved seismic performance assessment is proposed based on risk assessment and seismic performance techniques since more systematic evaluation and condition assessment are required, and thus the practical and economical seismic retrofit measures for the existing facilities and for the reasonable seismic design as well are to be developed more than ever before.

Recently a lot of strong earthquakes are happened in China. By the report of the Earthquakes that can be seen the URM buildings are destroyed by the highest rate. Thus in this study, the performance and vulnerable of URM houseing buildings in China, and use them to describe the derivative and evaluate the seismic performance have been analyzed.

비보강 조적벽체를 이용한 저층 건축물은 국내에 가장 흔히 볼 수 있는 주거형태이지만, 비보강 조적벽체는 높은 횡강성에 비하여 연성능력 부족 등의 이유로 지진으로부터 구조적 피해를 피하기 힘든 횡력저항시스템으로 알려져 있다. 하지만, 국내 비보강 조적벽체 전단강도와 전단강성에 대한 실험적 연구는 부족한 편이며, 실제 지진이 발생했을 비보강 조적벽체를 횡력저항요소로 사용하는 건축물의 내진성능에 대한 연구는 상대적으로 부족한 실정이다. 이로 인하여 국내 비보강 조적벽체의 특성을 반영하고 있다고 볼 수 없는 FEMA 356에서 제시하고 있는 비보강 조적벽체의 전단강도와 강성을 준용하여 사용하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 우선 FEMA 356에서 제시하고 비보강 조적벽체의 전단강도와 강성을 실험결과와의 차이에 대해 기술하고, 이 차이가 현황조사와 실험데이터를 바탕으로 결정한 표본 비보강 조적조 건축물의 내진성능에 미치는 영향과 경과년수에 따른 영향을 증분동적해석을 이용하여 계산된 붕괴여유비와 구조성능의 불확실성을 표현하는 베타값을 이용하여 분석하였다. 해석결과를 통하여 FEMA 356에 의한 전단강도와 강성을 사용할 경우 조적조 건축물의 붕괴여유비와 베타값을 과소평가하는 것으로 나타났다. 하지만, 두 경우 모두 국내 내진설계기준에서 제시하는 성능기준을 만족하지 않는 것으로 나타났으며, 경과연수가 클수록 이런 현상은 뚜렷해지며, 30년 이상 경과된 조적조 건축물은 2400년 재현주기의 지진에 붕괴확률이 약 90%에 도달하는 것으로 나타났다.

In this study is experiment result of reinforced concrete squat shear walls with deformation capacity and structural strengthening performance. In order to evaluate the seismic performance of squat shear walls, slits with opening was used as a variables. The experimental results show that ductility capacity of reinforced concrete squat shear wall with slits is superior compared to normal reinforced concrete squat shear wall